runt

Meanings

Plural: runts

Noun

disparaging terms for small people
The smallest animal of a litter.
The smallest child in the family.
Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
A bow.

Origin / Etymology

The OED classifies this word as "of obscure origin". Some see a connection to Middle Dutch runt (“ox”), but the OED considers this to be unlikely.

Synonyms

dwarf, half-pint, peewee, shrimp

Scrabble Score: 4

runt is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
runt is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
runt is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

runt is a valid Words With Friends word